Example sentences of "[adv] stupid as " in BNC.
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1 | I AM reluctant to believe that the British people are so stupid as to return anyone but nice Mr Major at tomorrow 's election . |
2 | Could Filmer have been so stupid as to get the horses ' names wrong in addition to the cities ? |
3 | How could she be so stupid as to think he believed in the legend of the Kershaw Worm ? |
4 | However , they 're not so stupid as to allow the adventurers to forge such a document right in front of them and get away with it . |
5 | I would n't be so stupid as to pretend to have any idea what Claudia was going through during the hours leading up to the birth . |
6 | Even knowing that I shall never be so stupid as to be vain about it , but be grateful , be terribly glad ( especially after this ) to be alive , to be who I am — Miranda , and unique . |
7 | Never again would he be so stupid as to embroil himself in something like this . |
8 | They were n't quite so stupid as to believe wholly their own propaganda . |
9 | Men like Ryan , and probably Leo , could have their pick of women , which made it even more unbelievable that she had been so stupid as to believe Ryan . |
10 | ‘ But who would be so stupid as to worship Bel-him ? |
11 | It was impossible to believe she could have been so stupid as to let Marc kiss her ! |
12 | He stood alone in the corner of the yard feeling more than a little stupid as he stamped up and down to keep warm . |
13 | They wo n't all be as stupid as that . |
14 | Yet the argument that she sacrificed her art for his is as stupid as the argument about who influenced whom . |
15 | ‘ This is my window , ’ she added and tossed a haughty look to the rest of the room as if to say , ‘ Are foreigners as stupid as shit , or what ? ’ |
16 | They were clumsy , hesitant lies , yet Simon had believed them : it did not occur to him that someone as stupid as Marie could ever successfully deceive him . |
17 | ‘ It 's obviously as stupid as everything else . ’ |
18 | I learned later that he thought stupidity the norm for human behaviour , and that no one was as stupid as passengers , politicians , pressmen and the people who employed him . |
19 | But it would n't have been so funny if the robbers were n't as stupid as they were and the film would n't have been so good . |
20 | Lunatic to reckon that it would work for him … but only as stupid as the acceptance of the alternative which was fourteen years in the camps . |
21 | ‘ Do n't ever say anything as stupid as that to me again . ’ |
22 | My , my , Dowd thought , they 're not as stupid as they look . |
23 | The poor were just as stupid as the rich ; he had only contempt for both of them . |
24 | Nobody could expect you to think up anything as stupid as a dumb movie actress aiming at the front page . ’ |
25 | They 're not as stupid as you make out . |
26 | But ‘ people are not as stupid as some structuralist philosophers suppose them to be . |
27 | I mean it it sounds stupid , but a person I knew , she was about as stupid as i was as naive as I was , because er she was pregnant , her husband was n't away but she 'd got how many , five , four children , she 'd lost three children and she 'd got , then she had four , and then she found herself pregnant again . |
28 | She reminded herself that it was unlikely that all people could possibly be as stupid as she supposed them to be ; that at some level even she , Lydia the clever , could find common ground and communicate intelligibly with other human beings . |
29 | ‘ He sounds as stupid as I thought . |
30 | They might be bad if you ate too much of them , but who would be as stupid as that ? |